Category: West African Women Writers
Book Review: Chimamanda Adichie’s The Thing Around Your Neck
In The Thing Around Your Neck, a collection of short stories written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the reader is exposed to characters that are many things, including a surprise to those who have been limited to a Western literary interpretation of Nigerian culture. Adichie insists on considering the wide variety of Nigerian stories to be [...]
Nigerian Women Writers
We will be posting information and news about contemporary Nigerian women writers as the months go on. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is an award winning Nigerian author who left Nigeria and has gone on to study and graduate from several US colleges and universities. Here is a video of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie speaking for a TED [...]
